The Genesis and Development of an English Organ Sonata

ISBN-13: 9780367884048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 124 str.

Iain Quinn

Opis

This volume considers the influences and development of the English organ sonata tradition that began in the 1850s with compositions by W. T. Best and William Spark. Begins by examining the legacy of the keyboard sonata in Britain, Quinn explores the veneration of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as composers wrote ‘portfolio’ sonatas to exhibit their

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter 1 Classicism in the English Organ Sonata Tradition

Chapter 2 The Earliest English Organ Sonatas

Chapter 3 The Highest Walks of Art

Chapter 4 The Leipzig Influence and the Path to Elgar

O autorze

Iain Quinn is Assistant Professor of Organ and Coordinator of Sacred Music at Florida State University. He holds degrees from the University of Hartford, Yale University and the University of Durham. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, Visiting Composer in Chapel at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is also a Fulbright Scholar and was awarded a fellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. Scholarly writings have been published in Tempo, MLA Notes, Journal of Victorian Culture, Interpreting Historical Keyboard Music (Ashgate), and in editions of Samuel Barber (G. Schirmer), Carl Czerny and John Goss (A-R Editions). He is also the author of 'The Organist in Victorian Literature' (Palgrave Macmillan) and has recorded thirteen CDs as a soloist or conductor on the Chandos, Hyperion, Naxos, Paulus, and Regent labels.